"Many women who dress inappropriately ... cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which increases earthquakes," he told worshippers at a Tehran prayer service late last week.

"Calamities are the result of people's deeds.

“We have no way but conform to Islam to ward off dangers."

Which raises the question: which Islam is to be conformed to? Somehow, you just know that old goatface has never read “The Taqwacores” or listened to the Kominas pound away at "Suicide bomb the GAP".